I am a left-handed thinkpad user and have grown used to using the trackpoint in its default right-handed configuration. When I use my bluetooth mouse, however, I would like the buttons to have a left-handed layout. In 11.04 (Natty) I can configure this manually using xinput, but I would like to have it applied automatically when the mouse is connected. I have followed the xorg documentation by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf/99-ms500mouse.conf and placing the following into it:

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Found the problem. gnome-settings-daemon is overriding the settings I give the mouse with the system-wide settings (which are set to right-handed). The only way to avoid this behavior is to fire up gconf-editor and find the key:

/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse/active

And unset it. This will prevent it from overriding the settings specified in an xorg.conf (or fragment file in etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/).